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Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations

Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations book review Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations Desiree Lewis political regions of North America and India. At the same time, they enter into dia- logue with each other in exploring how socially situated bodies – othered in gen- dered, raced and neoliberal systems and discourses – navigate and resist oppressive food politics. As both authors also show, critical approaches to food politics should entail much more than attention to who gets to eat well, or why certain groups are able to waste food obscenely while most of the world’s population starves, cannot make informed and healthy food choices, or inhabits food deserts, those foodscapes of near-starvation created by the corporate food industry’s hunger for profits. As the authors show, exploring the politics of food, eating and hunger should focus also on the languages and attitudes surrounding how these are connected to radical struggles for human freedom. By focusing on the represented and imagined connec- tions between human desires and experi- ences on one hand and food and hunger on the other, Williams-Forson and Nagar also encourage us to interrogate and re- imagine our relationships to both humans Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race as well as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agenda Taylor & Francis

Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations

Agenda , Volume 37 (1): 8 – Jan 2, 2023
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2023 Desiree Lewis
ISSN
2158-978X
eISSN
1013-0950
DOI
10.1080/10130950.2023.2191467
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book review Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations Desiree Lewis political regions of North America and India. At the same time, they enter into dia- logue with each other in exploring how socially situated bodies – othered in gen- dered, raced and neoliberal systems and discourses – navigate and resist oppressive food politics. As both authors also show, critical approaches to food politics should entail much more than attention to who gets to eat well, or why certain groups are able to waste food obscenely while most of the world’s population starves, cannot make informed and healthy food choices, or inhabits food deserts, those foodscapes of near-starvation created by the corporate food industry’s hunger for profits. As the authors show, exploring the politics of food, eating and hunger should focus also on the languages and attitudes surrounding how these are connected to radical struggles for human freedom. By focusing on the represented and imagined connec- tions between human desires and experi- ences on one hand and food and hunger on the other, Williams-Forson and Nagar also encourage us to interrogate and re- imagine our relationships to both humans Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race as well as

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Published: Jan 2, 2023

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